This Field Trip has been CANCELLED. Robert Pledger and Rosemary Laidacker will lead a group back to the site of the historic Spindletop oil discovery that made Texas famous for oil in 1901. The oil discovery is near the campus of Lamar University in East Texas. Participants will be able to stand next to were […]
Field Trip #4: Spindletop Oil Field – Gladys City Boomtown Museum (1-Day) – CANCELLED
Field Trip #3: Geology of Canyon Lake Gorge (1-Day)
Conference registration is required for enrollment in field trips and short courses, with the exception of the More! Rocks in Your Head teacher program. See the Registration page for details on registration options. Save with Early Bird rates until August 16th! Dr. Joel Saylor, of University of Houston, will take field trip members to incredible stops […]
Field Trip #5: Galveston and the Brazos River Delta as Reservoir Analogs (1-Day)
Conference registration is required for enrollment in field trips and short courses, with the exception of the More! Rocks in Your Head teacher program. See the Registration page for details on registration options. Save with Early Bird rates until August 16th! Dr. John Anderson, of Rice University, will lead a one-day field trip to Galveston, Texas, […]
Field Trip #6: Hands-On Geophysical Data Acquisition – Characterizing Shallow Gulf Coast Sediments Using Cuttings, Well Logs, and Seismic Surveys (1-Day)
Conference registration is required for enrollment in field trips and short courses, with the exception of the More! Rocks in Your Head teacher program. See the Registration page for details on registration options. Save with Early Bird rates until August 16th! Dr. Robert Stewart (University of Houston and Director of Allied Geophysical Labs) will lead a […]
Field Trip #7: Field Work on Active Faults in Houston (1-Day)
Conference registration is required for enrollment in field trips and short courses, with the exception of the More! Rocks in Your Head teacher program. See the Registration page for details on registration options. Save with Early Bird rates until August 16th! Dr. Shuhab Khan of University of Houston (Remote Sensing) will present evidence of active growth […]
Technical Program Papers
The GCAGS 2015 Technical Program will feature large rooms and comfortable seating for hundreds of geoscientists attending the Technical Program -Monday September 21 and Tuesday September 22 -at th George R Brown convention center, downtown Houston.
Icebreaker
The traditional Icebreaker cocktail party will be held on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in the Exhibit Hall, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The Icebreaker is a meet and great networking opportunity to see vendor and society booths and poster sessions.
Short Courses
Poster Sessions
Meet the GCAGS Field Trip Co-Chairs
Julia Smith Wellner is Professor of Earth Science at University of Houston. Her husband, Dr. Robert Wellner, is a senior geoscientist at ExxonMobil. He is an expert in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology and field work. Julia Wellner studies Antarctic geology. Together, they are putting together the Field Trip Roster for the GCAGS 2015 Houston convention. […]